Michael Jackson's oxygen chamber found

Michael Jackson's oxygen chamber has been found lying in a storage warehouse.

Michael Jackson: The chamber enables patients to breath in 100 per cent oxygen, rather than the 21 per cent normal concentration in airPhoto: AP

10:08AM BST 11 Aug 2009

The singer used the medical chamber to improve his health, once claiming it could help him live to be "at least 150".

Jackson, who died in June aged 50, used the Sechrist 2500B chamber in 1984, after being burned while filming a Pepsi advertisement.

The chamber enables patients to breath in 100 per cent oxygen, rather than the 21 per cent normal concentration in air, which can allow for speedier recovery of damaged tissue.

He subsequently donated £900,000 to the Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City, California, which allowed the organisation to buy the equipment.

In 1986 he was pictured using it again, apparently sleeping. An American magazine quoted him as saying: "I plan to get one immediately. If I treat my body properly I'll live to at least 150".

In 1994 he bought the machine off the hospital.

It is now owned by another medical centre, OxyHeal, according to the Daily Mirror.

Ted Gurnee, its business director, told the paper: "Michael wouldn't have slept in the chamber all night as it would have caused oxygen toxicity and he'd have died. Instead he probably used it for one or two hours at a time.

"We conducted a study and found it helps promote the growth of older cells, effectively slowing down the ageing process. So maybe Michael was right."